Re: Bad press related to (missing) Debian security

2005-06-27 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Moritz Muehlenhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.06.28.0156 +0200]: > Have a look at the system we use for the testing security team (I > always thought it originated in the security team): > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/secure-testing-commits/2005-June/thread.html > > This sys

Re: Bad press related to (missing) Debian security

2005-06-27 Thread Marek Olejniczak
On Monday 27 June 2005 20:39, Marek Olejniczak wrote: I don't understand the philosophy of Debian security team. It's really so difficult to push into sarge spamassassin 3.0.4 which is not vulnerable? This version is in Debian testing and why this version can't be push into stable? Seems that y

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Re: Bad press related to (missing) Debian security

2005-06-27 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 01:56:55AM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > Have a look at the system we use for the testing security team (I always > thought it originated in the security team): > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/secure-testing-commits/2005-June/thread.html > > This system is

Re: Bad press related to (missing) Debian security

2005-06-27 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 01:29:12AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: So if we all recognise it as a problem, it will solve itself? Nothing's useful if people won't use it. Mike Stone -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bad press related to (missing) Debian security

2005-06-27 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
In gmane.linux.debian.devel.security, you wrote: >>Part of the problem with security updates has to do with the fact that >>it's just difficult to coordinate the work. Even when Wichert, mdz, and >>others were more active, Joey still did most of the work because it was >>often easier for one perso

Re: Bad press related to (missing) Debian security

2005-06-27 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.06.28.0044 +0200]: > The security secretaries were originally going to be part of the > solution, and there was talk from some people about writing > a tracking system that didn't materialize. Mostly I think it just > needs recognition that it's a

Re: Bad press related to (missing) Debian security

2005-06-27 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 12:00:28AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: Do you guys see this as a de facto state with no solution, or is a good solution simply waiting to be found? The security secretaries were originally going to be part of the solution, and there was talk from some people about writ

Re: debian security archive/updates b0rken???

2005-06-27 Thread Sebastian Ley
Am Sonntag, 19. Juni 2005 08:45 schrieb Steve Langasek: > On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 12:31:23AM -0400, sean finney wrote: > > please excuse this blatant cross-posting, i wouldn't do it if i didn't > > think it were critical that i do so... > > > > http://www.infodrom.org/~joey/log/?200506142140 > > >

Re: Bad press related to (missing) Debian security

2005-06-27 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.06.27.2100 +0200]: > There is a problem with that, namely responsible disclosure. The > team cannot be too big or else the other organisations in the > consortium will object for danger of leakage. > > I think what we do need though is an infra

Re: Bad press related to (missing) Debian security

2005-06-27 Thread Ulf Harnhammar
> > That's exactly it. There's no effective tracking of security problems, > > and some people don't see this as a problem. That makes it extremely > > difficult for others to see what needs to be done. > > Do you guys see this as a de facto state with no solution, or is > a good solution simply w

Re: Bad press related to (missing) Debian security

2005-06-27 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.06.27.2251 +0200]: > On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 02:36:12PM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > >Part of the problem with security updates has to do with the fact that > >it's just difficult to coordinate the work. Even when Wichert, mdz, and > >others we

Re: Bad press related to (missing) Debian security

2005-06-27 Thread Ulf Harnhammar
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 09:05:20PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > Even if 3.0.4 contains only the security fix It doesn't, BTW: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/changes304 // Ulf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bad press related to (missing) Debian security

2005-06-27 Thread Ulf Harnhammar
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 07:36:50PM +, Paul Hink wrote: > Having one's workstation compromised (e.g. due to some vulnerability of > Mozilla) is a serious thing. There might be confidential data (e.g. > private e-mails) stored on it and in many cases it makes compromising a > server much easier a

Re: Bad press related to (missing) Debian security

2005-06-27 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 07:43:50PM +0100, Steve Kemp wrote: In some cases fixing a problem, which an upstream will not, or which the package maintainer cannot is *very* hard work. (eg. Mozilla/ Kernel images). Damn near impossible, in the case of mozilla. I trolled several times on debian-sec

Re: Bad press related to (missing) Debian security

2005-06-27 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 02:36:12PM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote: Part of the problem with security updates has to do with the fact that it's just difficult to coordinate the work. Even when Wichert, mdz, and others were more active, Joey still did most of the work because it was often easier for

Re: Bad press related to (missing) Debian security

2005-06-27 Thread Adam Majer
Steve Kemp wrote: >On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 02:36:12PM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > > > >>Even allowing uploads from the secretaries could be helpful. >> >> > > Definitely. > > I've got fixed packages available right now for some of the > bugs which have been raised in this thread, bu

Re: Bad press related to (missing) Debian security

2005-06-27 Thread Paul Hink
Adam Majer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jan Lühr wrote: >> In it's last one to two years Woody was starving out of security >> updates. (Samba, Mozilla, Kernel, etc.). > These are much less of a problem since they deal with either Intranet > only applications (Samba), "Intranet" is not a synon

Re: Bad press related to (missing) Debian security

2005-06-27 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Noah Meyerhans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.06.27.2116 +0200]: > of a "secretary". (though, when trying to do that kind of work, > I've always found that I'm a whole lot better at hacking than I am > at secretarial work; I suspect that's the case with a lot of > developers) Barring that I

Re: Bad press related to (missing) Debian security

2005-06-27 Thread Steve Kemp
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 09:05:53PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > > The secretary position was originally created to help this > > situation, but it was never really clear to me what my role was > > supposed to be. > > I never understood it either. > > How much information can be disclosed abou

Re: Bad press related to (missing) Debian security

2005-06-27 Thread martin f krafft
> At the same time, though, I think we need to take immediate action. > Among the first steps would be the analysis of the status quo. I am > going through the list of CVEs right now. There are *loads*. And > I could need help. I'll ping out to joeyh to see if we could put his > scripts for testing

Re: Bad press related to (missing) Debian security

2005-06-27 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 09:05:53PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > > How much information can be disclosed about the inner workings of > the security team without damage? Most, but not all, of the security team's work is rather routing and very uninteresting. Often it is necessary to review code

Re: Bad press related to (missing) Debian security

2005-06-27 Thread Jan Lühr
Greetings, Am Montag, 27. Juni 2005 20:10 schrieb Adam Majer: > Jan Lühr wrote: > >Greetings, > > > >Am Montag, 27. Juni 2005 15:54 schrieb Carl-Eric Menzel: > >>Does anybody know what the actual problem is, i.e. why there are no > >>updates? > > > >This is not an "actual" problem, this problem is

Re: Bad press related to (missing) Debian security

2005-06-27 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.06.27.2105 +0200]: > Even if 3.0.4 contains only the security fix, it will still be backported > and released as 3.0.3-1sarge1 or something like that. That's actually not guaranteed. If 3.0.4 contains only the security fix and really nothing else, I

Re: Bad press related to (missing) Debian security

2005-06-27 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Marek Olejniczak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.06.27.2039 +0200]: > I don't understand the philosophy of Debian security team. It's > really so difficult to push into sarge spamassassin 3.0.4 which is > not vulnerable? This version is in Debian testing and why this > version can't be push i

Re: Bad press related to (missing) Debian security

2005-06-27 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Noah Meyerhans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.06.27.2036 +0200]: > Part of the problem with security updates has to do with the fact > that it's just difficult to coordinate the work. Even when > Wichert, mdz, and others were more active, Joey still did most of > the work because it was oft

Re: Bad press related to (missing) Debian security

2005-06-27 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 27 June 2005 20:39, Marek Olejniczak wrote: > I don't understand the philosophy of Debian security team. It's really > so difficult to push into sarge spamassassin 3.0.4 which is not > vulnerable? This version is in Debian testing and why this version > can't be push into stable? Seems t

Re: Bad press related to (missing) Debian security

2005-06-27 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.06.27.2026 +0200]: > I expect it would be enough if they were all active, but that has > never been the case for this group. Wichert, Daniel, Michael and > myself are all de facto inactive for various reasons, and have > been for some time. I,

Re: Bad press related to (missing) Debian security

2005-06-27 Thread Noèl Köthe
Am Montag, den 27.06.2005, 11:26 -0700 schrieb Matt Zimmerman: > > # Security Team -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > /member/ Martin Schulze > > /member/ Wichert Akkerman > > /member/ Daniel Jacobowitz > > /member/ Michael Stone > > /member/ Matt Zimmerman > > /secretary/ No

Re: Bad press related to (missing) Debian security

2005-06-27 Thread Sven Mueller
Matt Zimmerman wrote on 27/06/2005 20:26: > On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 01:10:10PM -0500, Adam Majer wrote: > >>are happy the fix will not mess up current functionality. How many >>people do we need on the actual security team? The current listing states, >> >># Security Team -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

Re: Bad press related to (missing) Debian security

2005-06-27 Thread Steve Kemp
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 08:39:43PM +0200, Marek Olejniczak wrote: > I don't understand the philosophy of Debian security team. It's really so > difficult to push into sarge spamassassin 3.0.4 which is not vulnerable? > This version is in Debian testing and why this version can't be push into >

Re: Bad press related to (missing) Debian security

2005-06-27 Thread Steve Kemp
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 02:36:12PM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > Even allowing uploads from the secretaries could be helpful. Definitely. I've got fixed packages available right now for some of the bugs which have been raised in this thread, but until somebody can push out the advisor

Re: Bad press related to (missing) Debian security

2005-06-27 Thread Marek Olejniczak
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Matt Zimmerman wrote: The security team has always been a difficult one to expand. A strong level of trust is necessary due to confidentiality issues, and security support is a lot of (mostly boring and thankless) work. However, expanding it seems like the only way to make

Re: Bad press related to (missing) Debian security

2005-06-27 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 11:26:37AM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > The security team has always been a difficult one to expand. A strong level > of trust is necessary due to confidentiality issues, and security support is > a lot of (mostly boring and thankless) work. However, expanding it seems >

Re: Bad press related to (missing) Debian security

2005-06-27 Thread Stefan Fritsch
On Monday 27 June 2005 20:26, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > I expect it would be enough if they were all active, but that has > never been the case for this group.  Wichert, Daniel, Michael and > myself are all de facto inactive for various reasons, and have been > for some time. And according to Steve

Re: Bad press related to (missing) Debian security

2005-06-27 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 01:10:10PM -0500, Adam Majer wrote: > are happy the fix will not mess up current functionality. How many > people do we need on the actual security team? The current listing states, > > # Security Team -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > /member/ Martin Schulze > /member/ W

Re: Bad press related to (missing) Debian security

2005-06-27 Thread Adam Majer
Jan Lühr wrote: >Greetings, > >Am Montag, 27. Juni 2005 15:54 schrieb Carl-Eric Menzel: > > >>Does anybody know what the actual problem is, i.e. why there are no >>updates? >> >> > >This is not an "actual" problem, this problem is rather imho structual. In >it's last one to two years Woody

Re: Bad press related to (missing) Debian security

2005-06-27 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Bob Tanner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.06.27.1939 +0200]: > How would one go about getting on the security team? Current practice is: you don't. The security team advises you to send notices and patches their way. At any point, they may invite people who have made significant contributio

Re: Bad press related to (missing) Debian security

2005-06-27 Thread martin f krafft
[cc'ing -project] also sprach W. Borgert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.06.27.1525 +0200]: > Just FYI: The well-known German Heise Newsticker (IT related) has an > article today with the title "Debian without security update for > several weeks": http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/61076 > Hm, bad r

Re: Bad press related to (missing) Debian security

2005-06-27 Thread Adam Majer
Bob Tanner wrote: >How would one go about getting on the security team? > >If the entry into the security team is as convoluted as becoming a debian >developer I understand why the security team does not have enough active >members. > > I would assume you need to be a DD before you can join th

Re: Bad press related to (missing) Debian security

2005-06-27 Thread Bob Tanner
On Monday 27 June 2005 09:53 am, Martin Lohmeier wrote: > time to get s.d.o working --> not enough active member in the security > team. How would one go about getting on the security team? If the entry into the security team is as convoluted as becoming a debian developer I understand why the s

Re: Bad press related to (missing) Debian security

2005-06-27 Thread Jan Lühr
Greetings, Am Montag, 27. Juni 2005 15:54 schrieb Carl-Eric Menzel: > On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 15:50:19 +0200, "Jan Wagner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > On Monday 27 June 2005 15:25, W. Borgert wrote: > > > Just FYI: The well-known German Heise Newsticker (IT related) has an > > > article today with t

Re: Bad press related to (missing) Debian security

2005-06-27 Thread Martin Lohmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Carl-Eric Menzel wrote: > Does anybody know what the actual problem is, i.e. why there are no > updates? > > Carl-Eric > > Hi, problem: http://www.infodrom.org/~joey/log/?200506142140 In the discussion on the heise.de article people mentioned [1]

Re: Bad press related to (missing) Debian security

2005-06-27 Thread Carl-Eric Menzel
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 15:50:19 +0200, "Jan Wagner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Monday 27 June 2005 15:25, W. Borgert wrote: > > Just FYI: The well-known German Heise Newsticker (IT related) has an > > article today with the title "Debian without security update for > > several weeks": http://www.h

Re: Bad press related to (missing) Debian security

2005-06-27 Thread Jan Wagner
On Monday 27 June 2005 15:25, W. Borgert wrote: > Just FYI: The well-known German Heise Newsticker (IT related) has an > article today with the title "Debian without security update for > several weeks": http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/61076 > Hm, bad reputation for us... This was only a qu

Bad press related to (missing) Debian security

2005-06-27 Thread W. Borgert
Just FYI: The well-known German Heise Newsticker (IT related) has an article today with the title "Debian without security update for several weeks": http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/61076 Hm, bad reputation for us... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc